K Bloody Mary Mix

K Bloody Mary Mix

We first met Khia Nelson and tried her K Bloody Mary Mix at City Winery in Montgomery, New York during their MADE Hudson Valley Spring 2022 event, and fell in love with the product. What we loved about K Bloody Mary Mix is that it has delicious ingredients blended to create a very tasty, flavorful, and ready-to-drink base for a great cocktail, just add your favorite alcohol, or to drink on its own for what we call DNA cocktails^TM (Delectable No Alcohol).

Intrigued, we wanted to learn more about Khia Nelson, the creator, independent owner of the female BIPOC company and about her product. Speaking with Khia we learned that the Bloody Mary cocktail and lots of fabulous music were an integral part of her family’s traditions growing up in Philadelphia. Later, when she started working in the hospitality industry and was bartending, she found that the ready-to-serve Bloody Mary mixes used were severely lacking in flavor, and since she was "doctoring" up the mixes, she started creating her own mixes from scratch to use at the restaurants.

Khia Nelson

Restaurant patrons loved her Bloody Mary cocktails and wanted to know where they could buy the mix to enjoy Bloody Mary cocktails at home. As a vegan home chef, Khia wanted to create a vegan, gluten free Bloody Mary mix, that would not only make a great cocktail, but she also could use in her culinary recipes. With encouragement from restaurant patrons and family, Khia created and launched her company making small-batch K Bloody Mary Mix in 2016. She started selling her product at local markets, restaurants, and pop-up events, then ultimately included an online store to reach more consumers. She now ships across the United States and to Canada. Khia divides her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where in her free time she enjoys spending time with and cooking for family and friends, playing with her cats, fashion is her passion, dancing, and listening to great music, so be sure to check out her playlist on her website for your next party.

Luxury Experience is not the only fan of the award-winning K Bloody Mary Mix; it was awarded a 2020 Good Food Award, and in 2021 received a Gold Medal from Fifty Best. K Bloody Mary Mix is also a "proud member of: Made in NYC, a non-profit spotlighting New York City-based businesses, The Good Food Guild, and The Specialty Food Association."

What we especially loved about K Bloody Mary Mix is that it has all the ingredients that we would use to create a great Bloody Mary, without having to take the time to make it from scratch. The mix is well-balanced with layers of flavors and has enough spice to give it a kick, without knocking your palate off for the rest of the day. Simply add vodka, tequila, mezcal, gin, sake, or your favorite alcohol to K Bloody Mary Mix, put on some great music, invite family or friends over, and you have the makings for a great party.

K Bloody Mary Mix – How to Make a Classic Bloody Mary Cocktail
Yield: 1 cocktail
Glass Used: Collins Glass

Ingredients:

Method: Shake lightly over ice pour into a Collins glass. Garnish with stalk of celery, olives, and a lime wedge.

More Cocktail and Culinary Recipes

While K Bloody Mary Mix makes a perfect Bloody Mary cocktail, we also found it especially versatile in culinary recipes. Luxury Experience was "in the kitchen and behind the bar®" creating incredibly special handcrafted cocktails and culinary recipes to tempt your palate and inspire your own creations using K Bloody Mary Mix.

Luxury Experience – Cocktail Recipes

Ingredients:

Method: Add Mezcal, tequila, K Bloody Mary Mix, lime juice, and agave nectar to a shaker with 2 ice cubes. Shake hard to dissolve ice. Run a cut lime around the outside edge of the glass, then add a small amount of Tajin (a Mexican spice mix sold in supermarkets) to a saucer and rim the glass with the mixture. Pour cocktail into glass and garnish with lime wheel, and fresh chili or jalapeno, if desired.

We love using infusions in our cocktail creations and created Luxury Experience – Hot Smoking Tomato Martini by infusing SONO 1420 American Craft Distillers Vo Vodka with a habanero and letting the vodka rest until it reached our desired level of heat. Habanero "heat" can vary, so when you create an infusion, it is important to taste throughout the process. It may take a few hours or a few days depending on the level of heat desired.

We combined our infused vodka with K Bloody Mary Mix, and Noilly Prat Extra Dry Vermouth, and gave it a smoking finish by lighting a sprig of dried rosemary and extinguishing it in the cocktail. We garnished the cocktail with a skewered sundried tomato.

Ingredients:

Method: Chill Martini glass and set aside. Add all ingredients (except garnish) to a shaker with 4 ice cubes, shake hard until ice dissolves, strain into chilled Martini glass. Garnish with skewered sundried tomato. Present the cocktail in front of your guest, light a sprig of rosemary, and extinguish it in the cocktail to give it a smoking finish.

VIDEO – Debra C. Argen shows how to make a Luxury Experience – Hot Smoking Tomato Martini – https://youtu.be/Y90fL8N9a-Y

Cocktail Garnishes

A great Bloody Mary is all about the mix and the alcohol, although somewhere along the line, garnishes became equally important, often fighting for prime cocktail "real estate." The garnish is up to individual preference, so for parties we like to offer a variety of pre-skewered options presented in square vases or glasses so that our guests can customize their cocktail.

Go traditional and cut celery stalks with leaves long enough to use as stirrers. Alternate Spanish pimento stuffed green olives, grape tomatoes, and cocktail onions on a skewer. Skewer your favorite olives and cubes of cheese. Skewer ciliegine mozzarella balls and grape tomatoes. Dice cucumbers and alternate with olives.

Love bacon with your Bloody Mary cocktail? Rim your glass first with maple syrup, then dip in crushed crispy bacon. Use a vegetable peeler on a cucumber to create long strips and then roll them up with a cocktail onion in the middle and skewer for a fanciful garnish. Be sure to offer lemon and lime wedges or wheels to add that extra citrus kick. Garnish possibilities are endless to make your Bloody Mary cocktail a sensation.

Luxury Experience Culinary Recipes

Luxury Experience Gazpacho is a great summertime starter that is easy-to-make, vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free. We like to gather ingredients from our local farmers’ market and serve it for backyard parties. The Gazpacho needs to rest for several hours or overnight to meld the flavors, making it perfect for easy and healthy summertime entertaining.

Gazpacho Ingredients:

Method: Mix all ingredients and refrigerate for several hours or overnight before serving. Garnish with fresh cilantro if desired.

Luxury Experience – Seafood Shooters

Our Seafood Shooters are another tasty, easy-to-make, easy-to-love, perfect for parties’ appetizers. We used "shot glasses" and alternately layered 1-tablespoon of cooked, diced bay scallops, cooked, diced shrimp, and diced roasted red pepper in the glasses, then topped them with K Bloody Mary Mix. We garnished the shooters with a medium size shrimp and presented them on a wood board with lemon wedges nestled on nasturtium leaves for an attractive presentation.

Whether you opt to serve K Bloody Mix on its own, use it as a base for a Bloody Mary cocktail with your favorite alcohol, or use it in culinary recipes, the results will be amazing.

Where to Buy and More Information

K Bloody Mary Mix is available on their website as well as in shops, and comes in two sizes, a 12-ounce bottle sells for $10, and a 25-ounce bottle sells for $18. We suggest you opt for the larger bottle and buy several as you will be happy you did once you start using K Bloody Mary Mix for cocktail and culinary recipes. Please contact K Bloody Mary Mix directly for Industry and Wholesale shipping and pricing. They can ship across the United States and Canada.

For more information on K Bloody Mary Mix and for more great recipes, please visit the website: www.KBloodyMaryMix.com.

Until next time, cheers and bon appetit!

K Bloody Mary Mix
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